My expirences of Yugioh is about having stragey, luck and trying to calculate what the oppenent can do.

I played it with some of a friends card once and made a deck wich i call ultimate piss off deck of slow defeat.

Ingridents:
3 solar flare dragons
3 pengiun soliders
3 Man eater bugs
2 bottomless trap holes
3 trap holes
3 Waboku's
1 Balloon lizard
2 Blue eyes Dragons (for power)
1 fullifment of the contract
2 White dragon rituals
2 White dragon paladins. (Guess their purpose)
Some magic cards to increase battle damage and some generic defense monsters.
Smashing Ground
Fissure. (Since my monsters mostly do not attack)
The A. forces x 3
and of course my all time favorite combo.
The ban Nightmare and Final destination. (aka clear the field for 5 cards (I have 7 in my hand, including FD) and then I play FD field is wiped. Summon Theban and make his attack 3k making it IMPOSSIBLE to dodge.)
Trap masters are also nice and of course Magican's of Faith.

It was just pure evil and defensive with some attack variation. It was all to keep the field clean when you can strike. And I always was able to stall time before I got some new good cards. (especially when I fillped penguin solider and replace it with a strong def mob). My only weakness was the magic card that removes face down monsters out of play and when I have more of em I have to remove em. But luckily I always hade a magic jammer ready for that.

Except Magician of Faith is banned, among other things. I can't be bothered looking at the TCG list, but I do know MoF is banned.

Which sucks. :|

No. The last thing the game needs is reusable Heavy Storms/Mystical Space Typhoons/etc.

I always liked Traditional when I could Raigeki/HFD someone 4+ times.

That's why they gave us Lightning Vortex.

Anyway, the staples for most decks include MST, Heavy Storm, D. Tornado, Sakuretsu Armor (I use D. Prison), Torrential Tribute, Fissure and Smashing Ground.

The problem with most of those is, they're becoming less and less useful. With Tele-DAD, Lightsworn and Gladiator Beasts reigning as the champion decks, it's hard no to want to netdeck.

There are tons of ways to easily counter all of those though. Thunder King Rai-Oh, Tualtin, Divine Wrath and Angel 07 are just a few. Hell, even a well-built Gadget/Morphtronic/Batterymen-Oppression deck can take them down. Not to mention Jinzo and Spell Canceller could easily take out the strategy behind all these. 2 out of 3 of those decks reed cards to be in the graveyard for their trumps to be effective (i.e. DAD and Judgement Dragon.)

Anyway, it seems as if they meta is shifting. DAD and Lightsworns are being abandoned in favor of Plants and Zombies now. Plants are prettty fucking awesome, especially with Botanical Lion, Black Rose Dragon, Rose, Warrior of Revenge Mark of the Rose, and Black Garden. Zombies just got a huge boost too with the Zombie Structure Deck, Plaguespreader, and Doomkaiser Dragon.

You're boring.
The main problem with that is that decent FTKs are intentionally crippled by the ban list, because of the brokenness of the Magical Scientist FTKs, etc. If people want to play in an inherently broken environment, but don't like FTKs, then they have no problems with something more broken like CED-Yata?

Konami doesn't even SUPPORT Traditional anymore. They come out with cards that take the PLACE of banned cards, which, if you have access to the banned cards, just gives you MORE copies of the banned cards, albeit at a cost.

[quote name='Raijinili' date='Dec 22 2008, 11:53 PM' post='67793']
[quote=Lux]You know, you're right.[/quote]You're boring.[/quote][/quote]

You know, you're right.

[quote=Lux]But, FTK's SHOULD be banned from the Traditional bracket if we have one, because of the brokenness of the Magical Scientist FTK's, etc.[/quote]The main problem with that is that decent FTKs are intentionally crippled by the ban list, because of the brokenness of the Magical Scientist FTKs, etc. If people want to play in an inherently broken environment, but don't like FTKs, then they have no problems with something more broken like CED-Yata?[/quote]

Konami doesn't even SUPPORT Traditional anymore. They come out with cards that take the PLACE of banned cards, which, if you have access to the banned cards, just gives you MORE copies of the banned cards, albeit at a cost.
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CED-Yata was so much fun. :[

This post has been edited by Aether: Dec 26 2008, 05:47 PM

I second the statement on plants. Asaph sometimes runs a plant deck centered around Tytannial, Princess of Camellias, and it's a pretty neat deck.

Totally beats my flipstall deck :/

I'm actually building a Neos Wiseman-based deck, with both Yubel and Neos out in 2 turns, and a bunch of little beatsticks splashed here and there. Mystic Tomato is the whole center to this deck lol.

My other decks are a Spellcaster Swarm with Tempest Magician, Magician's Valkyria, and Arcanite Mage as the whole basis. Plus I have a Destiny Hero - Plasma based deck with other Heroes.